My Big Mouth

Big lies mean big trouble for Jay and his mates. Funny and tender, My Big Mouth, CLiPPA Award-winner Steven Camdens brilliant first novel for readers of 8 to 11, is about friendship, storytelling and the price of being cool. Brilliantly illustrated throughout by Chante Timothy.\r\n\r\nThey think Im cool.\r\nDoms face wrinkled up, Who does? Who cares?\r\nBut I did. I cared.\r\n\r\nWhen Dad leaves, ten-year-old Jay has questions. \r\n Where has he gone? \r\n Why did he go?\r\n\r\n When no one can give Jay the answers he needs, he makes up his own stories, setting off a chain reaction that sees regular old Jay go from just another face in the crowd, to the centre of attention.\r\n\r\n But being the coolest kid in school comes at a cost. And as things spiral out of control, can the most unlikely person help him learn the most important lesson of all?